First Things First

Welcome back.  In this month's update there are 2 new pictures added to the Black and White section of Vista Drive.  Along with that I hope you check out the new issue of American Bliss.

Afterthoughts : Easter Surprise

I remember this one Easter when I thought that the real Easter Bunny had visited me.  I was young, only about six years old.  That morning I wanted a Playmobil ambulance with driver and nurse.

Every weekend we used to go to the Topanga mall.  While there I was pretty bored, except when I got to go to the toy department.  I saw the ambulance there.  I wanted it more than anything.  Come Easter I half expected that I would get it as a present.

I was up early, and I heard a knock on the back door.  I opened it, and found the package there waiting for me.  My Mother and Grandmother told me that the Easter Bunny had left it, and that I should go chase him.  I ran out so fast that I forgot to open my present.  I ran all the way out to the gate, but I was too short to reach the latch to open it.  My Mother and Grandmother saw that I was ready to fly out after the Easter bunny and told me that he was gone.  He's just too quick, they said.

It may sound naive, but for a lot of year afterwards I still thought that the Easter bunny had really visited me.  It wasn't until I was much older that my Mother told me that she had knocked on the door.  Until that day I was completely sure that the Easter bunny really did exist.

Editorial : No More Pop-Ups

The new Netscape Navigator 7.01 has a new feature that many web surfers will love, a pop-up blocker.  I've said it before, I'm sick of all these stupid pop-ups.  They disrupt me.  I went online and looked up pop-up blockers to see if I could find one.  On the search I found a site that informed me of Navigator's new abilities.  I tried the pop-up blocker in Navigator and it works like a charm.

Now, here's how to employ Navigator's pop-up blocker feature.  First, go to Edit, click on Preferences  Clicking this will bring up a dialogue box.  In the dialogue box click on Privacy & Security, and then select Popup Window Controls.  Click Suppress Popups, OK, and your done.

I've been surfing the web and Netscape's Pop-up blocker has done a great job of stopping all those annoying pop-ups.  I went on one site that I usually visit, and that has pop-ups, and had no pop-ups appear.  There is a way to keep certain pop-ups, needed pop-ups, from being suppressed.  In the same dialogue box as before you will find another option to have certain web site's pop-ups from being suppressed.  This is good because some sites do have pop-ups for passwords, and such.

To download the latest version of Netscape Navigator click on the button above, or visit http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp

Etcetera : Oscar's Funeral Dress

This space was going to have a small look at this year's Oscar fashions.  But, because of the war in Iraq, Hollywood decided that they didn't want to make a big thing about it.

Actually, the Oscars are a pile of shit now.  The only good thing about them are the fashion statements on the red carpet.  But, I watched them anyway.  Steve Martin was killer.  Super funny, super smart.

Back to the fashions for a minute.  Because of the war everyone dressed down, which meant dressing in all black.  Like it was a funeral.  Seeing as this year's Oscars had its lowest ratings since they've kept ratings for the Oscars, it was sorta a funeral.

The only woman that stood out as being subdued, but still beautiful (and not in black) was Diane Lane (pictured left).  I think she could probably look good in a burlap sack.  Nevertheless, she looked incredible, radiant, in her champagne colored mohair dress.  Really she was the only stand-out, in an otherwise sea of black.